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MIRECC / CoE

Newsletter | Winter 2022 | South Central MIRECC

Highlights from Our Anchor Sites

Our affiliates in Houston, Little Rock, New Orleans, and VISN 17 work hard to promote mental health education, research, and treatment locally and nationally. Here are some highlights of their accomplishments over the past three months.

Houston

Dr. Jenn Bryan

Dr. Ali Abbas Asghar-Ali

Drs. Ali Abbas Asghar-Ali and Jenn Bryan Awarded VA OMHSP Clinical Demonstration Project

Drs. Asghar-Ali and Bryan have a new project funded through the VA Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Suicide Prevention Program. The title of this project is “Veterans as Caring Buddies: Empowering Veterans to have conversations with Veteran buddies about lethal means safety as a community approach to suicide prevention.” It will develop educational materials (e.g., guide, videos) that will include foundational information on suicide and lethal means safety, identifying when a Veteran may be at risk for suicide and how to have a conversation about lethal means safety. It also incorporates Veteran feedback from the early stages of development so that the educational materials will be Veteran-centric.

Dr. Ali Abbas Asghar-Ali Discussed Caregiving on Houston Public Media Podcast

Dr. Asghar-Ali was also interviewed on the important role caregivers play in caring for loved ones for National Family Caregivers Month on Houston Public Media podcast “Town Square.”

Listen to the Podcast

Little Rock

Screenshot of Drs. Woodward and Singh's Conference Slides

Drs. Eva Woodward and Rajinder Sonia Singh Present at #DIScience21

Drs. Woodward and Singh presented on how to include domains from the Health Equity Implementation Framework in CFiR 2.0 for a combined implementation and equity focus in research at the AcademyHealth/National Institutes of Health Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health. A related paper on this research by the duo and their colleagues was the most accessed methodology article in Implementation Science Communications in 2021.

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Screenshot of Dr. Landes's Conference Slides

Dr. Sara Landes Presented at #ABCT2021

Dr. Landes presented provider prespectives on delivering tele-dialectical behavioral therapy at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies virtual convention.

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New Orleans

Dr. Claire Houtsma

Dr. Gala True

Drs. Gala True and Claire Houtsma Awarded VA OMHSP Clinical Demonstration Project

Drs. True and Houtsma have a new project funded through the VA Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Suicide Prevention Program. The title of this project is “Measuring Feasibility and Effectiveness of a Lethal Means Safety Suicide Prevention Module in Concealed Carry and Firearm Safety Classes.”

Last updated: January 28, 2022

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